In the business arena it's driven by hardware not software. And as businesses decide that their untermenschen legions of code crunching monkeys are fine with 4 year old laptops that have already been returned to the depot for broken equipment are just fine for the time being. Since they can't run Vista it's an easy decision to have them run XP.
Why not send out experimental drugs for me to try for merchandise based on open access to my complete DNA code. Why not stake the cops out to look for crimes I MIGHT commit based on all my other behaviors?
For years the ISP's have been able to bring me content, then rat me out and participate in a lawsuit AGAINST me. If anyone wants to put the brakes on illegal internet content then going after the ISP's is the only way to go.
Every time some group of social activists and NGO's screams about boycotting this that and the other Israeli institution, particularly academic institutions I start to lobby those academic institutions to increase royalty fees they charge those self same academic and NGO groups that already reap the benefit of the research of Israeli institutions they now claim to want to boycott. So for instance if the UK Academic Union wants to boycott all Israeli Universities then they should pay 5 or 10x what they do now while they use the intellectual property of those institutions they want to boycott. The choice should be up to them to pay or not and if they were as moral and ethical as they say they would not pay and put their money where their mouth is. All I propose is to make that decision easy for them.
I do outsourcing and the amount of SUN HW & SW we see to take over and staff up is soon becoming more of a bother than anything else. Most of non Windows servers that aren't AS/400's or mainframes are HP and AIX. Very little SUN and what is, we work to sunset in the following few years. It's too expensive for us to maintain the skill set and tools for a small pool of what's becoming a custom part of the deal.
No, no private company is going to privately fund manned missions to the moon and beyond. And India touched down a probe not a manned vehicle. And they never will send a manned vehicle. Those nationalistic bragging rights are already over and there's no possible way for China, India, Russia, Japan, the EU or anyone else to pull together what's needed to develop anything close to a semi permanent habitation off earth. Ever.
When the Shuttle goes out of service we will see the end of manned spaceflight with the exception of the occasional Chinese orbit and periodic ISS replenishment flights from Russia until the ISS goes out of service too in a few years. After that, it's over, done for the next century or more if not longer. The fact is that manned spaceflight is really beyond our grasp. We had some fun with some scientific projects to get 12 men on the moon and a few hundred into orbit. But that's the sum total of hundreds of billions of dollars and almost a half century of work. No private company would ever sign up for returns on investment that awful.
It's not. And I'm not one of those ZPG loons either. I just think we're done here and if we were all wiped off the face of the earth it wouldn't be a tragedy. Personally I'm hoping for a massive comet, at least it would be entertaining and WE DO have a black President.......
That is all pie in the sky nonsense. We can't even do what we do here on earth well enough to get a passing grade. Mining on the moon? We can't even build windmills. No, we need to come face to face that there's no longer any will or initiative to do any of this and no one apart from the people in the programs, even cares anymore.
Here in North Carolina if you make a public threat and more than one person hears it, it's considered to be terrorism. So why not extend that to online. Make a threat or insult online and it's terrorism. A straight up felony. We really don't need the quaint 18th Century notions of free speech. The risk of offending or scaring someone is just too high.
It's dead and buried and serves no useful purpose other than demonstrating the practicality of yet more tests for manned spaceflight. Let's face reality - going back to the moon will never happen because the only practical use of it is to extend the science needed to go to Mars - which itself is not going to happen in this century. It's just not in the cards. And even if we managed to convince the people who think Jesus rode to church on dinosaur that THAT serves some purpose, it would take a hundred years to ramp up anyway. And last but not least - the age of manned spaceflight when hand in the glove with a notion of risk and adventurism. That too is dead. We live in a zero risk low impact let's put warning labels on the helmets we make everyone wear in the bathtub world now. No one's going to support sending people on a high risk mission like that and even if they did it would look like the religious driven babbling portrayed in the movie "Contact" when it was decided that the first person to step off to a new world had to be a Fundamentalist or at least pretend to be.
So let's kill off manned spaceflight once and for all.
I'm against doing what does not work over and over and hoping that magically it will the next time. I work with SOX compliance, for example all the time and while we spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually and while the goals of SOX are sound and noble, no one has ever been able to demonstrate that they make any difference in the least.
Of course once they get going it becomes a self perpetuating mess. For instance the EU has an 80 page specification for the design and construction of a steering wheel. I have personally sat in on ISO meetings that corralled 60 people for them to argue for days on end to no useful conclusion about anything. Standards, per se are wonderful. That's why we have so many of them 8>0
We the minions of permanent at-home employees are captive to our corporate overlord's web, network and email architecture as well as whatever is common practice in the organization. I
EASILY
accrue several hundred MB a day just doing my job. Each time some yob sends me an email with a 7MB attachment and 8 other flunkies respond-all with "Me Too!!!" So unless my employer is willing to pay for all those overages for all those thousands of employees day after day after day I will just shut off my VPN connection so I'm not on the hook for it.
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We get Lenny. And you're nuts.
Not only will it be free it will make you a better lover and help feed miserable brown babies in the world.
In the business arena it's driven by hardware not software. And as businesses decide that their untermenschen legions of code crunching monkeys are fine with 4 year old laptops that have already been returned to the depot for broken equipment are just fine for the time being. Since they can't run Vista it's an easy decision to have them run XP.
Enjoy it, patriot.
Why not send out experimental drugs for me to try for merchandise based on open access to my complete DNA code. Why not stake the cops out to look for crimes I MIGHT commit based on all my other behaviors?
I would love to see Sirius/XM sue every hearing person on the planet. Rip a page from the record companies and litigate your way to prosperity.
It's the only way to be sure.
And his lifelong quest to solve the Longitude problem. Being a genius isn't enough, you need superhuman tenacity.
For years the ISP's have been able to bring me content, then rat me out and participate in a lawsuit AGAINST me. If anyone wants to put the brakes on illegal internet content then going after the ISP's is the only way to go.
Way simpler than a cat.
Every time some group of social activists and NGO's screams about boycotting this that and the other Israeli institution, particularly academic institutions I start to lobby those academic institutions to increase royalty fees they charge those self same academic and NGO groups that already reap the benefit of the research of Israeli institutions they now claim to want to boycott. So for instance if the UK Academic Union wants to boycott all Israeli Universities then they should pay 5 or 10x what they do now while they use the intellectual property of those institutions they want to boycott. The choice should be up to them to pay or not and if they were as moral and ethical as they say they would not pay and put their money where their mouth is. All I propose is to make that decision easy for them.
I do outsourcing and the amount of SUN HW & SW we see to take over and staff up is soon becoming more of a bother than anything else. Most of non Windows servers that aren't AS/400's or mainframes are HP and AIX. Very little SUN and what is, we work to sunset in the following few years. It's too expensive for us to maintain the skill set and tools for a small pool of what's becoming a custom part of the deal.
No, no private company is going to privately fund manned missions to the moon and beyond. And India touched down a probe not a manned vehicle. And they never will send a manned vehicle. Those nationalistic bragging rights are already over and there's no possible way for China, India, Russia, Japan, the EU or anyone else to pull together what's needed to develop anything close to a semi permanent habitation off earth. Ever.
When the Shuttle goes out of service we will see the end of manned spaceflight with the exception of the occasional Chinese orbit and periodic ISS replenishment flights from Russia until the ISS goes out of service too in a few years. After that, it's over, done for the next century or more if not longer. The fact is that manned spaceflight is really beyond our grasp. We had some fun with some scientific projects to get 12 men on the moon and a few hundred into orbit. But that's the sum total of hundreds of billions of dollars and almost a half century of work. No private company would ever sign up for returns on investment that awful.
It's not. And I'm not one of those ZPG loons either. I just think we're done here and if we were all wiped off the face of the earth it wouldn't be a tragedy. Personally I'm hoping for a massive comet, at least it would be entertaining and WE DO have a black President.......
That is all pie in the sky nonsense. We can't even do what we do here on earth well enough to get a passing grade. Mining on the moon? We can't even build windmills. No, we need to come face to face that there's no longer any will or initiative to do any of this and no one apart from the people in the programs, even cares anymore.
We used to have fire but the inventor died.
Here in North Carolina if you make a public threat and more than one person hears it, it's considered to be terrorism. So why not extend that to online. Make a threat or insult online and it's terrorism. A straight up felony. We really don't need the quaint 18th Century notions of free speech. The risk of offending or scaring someone is just too high.
It's dead and buried and serves no useful purpose other than demonstrating the practicality of yet more tests for manned spaceflight. Let's face reality - going back to the moon will never happen because the only practical use of it is to extend the science needed to go to Mars - which itself is not going to happen in this century. It's just not in the cards. And even if we managed to convince the people who think Jesus rode to church on dinosaur that THAT serves some purpose, it would take a hundred years to ramp up anyway. And last but not least - the age of manned spaceflight when hand in the glove with a notion of risk and adventurism. That too is dead. We live in a zero risk low impact let's put warning labels on the helmets we make everyone wear in the bathtub world now. No one's going to support sending people on a high risk mission like that and even if they did it would look like the religious driven babbling portrayed in the movie "Contact" when it was decided that the first person to step off to a new world had to be a Fundamentalist or at least pretend to be.
So let's kill off manned spaceflight once and for all.
Working for zero wages and being told to be happy they have that job. Awesome.
I'm against doing what does not work over and over and hoping that magically it will the next time. I work with SOX compliance, for example all the time and while we spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually and while the goals of SOX are sound and noble, no one has ever been able to demonstrate that they make any difference in the least.
Of course once they get going it becomes a self perpetuating mess. For instance the EU has an 80 page specification for the design and construction of a steering wheel. I have personally sat in on ISO meetings that corralled 60 people for them to argue for days on end to no useful conclusion about anything. Standards, per se are wonderful. That's why we have so many of them 8>0
Standards are set by industry. All a CTO can accomplish is more silly compliance and audit standards that no one can follow.
Chief of what, precisely?
2000 years?
We get a flat rate $50/month broadband refund. We get a VoIP line paid for. Everything else is on our dime including all hardware and consumables.
We the minions of permanent at-home employees are captive to our corporate overlord's web, network and email architecture as well as whatever is common practice in the organization. I
EASILY
accrue several hundred MB a day just doing my job. Each time some yob sends me an email with a 7MB attachment and 8 other flunkies respond-all with "Me Too!!!" So unless my employer is willing to pay for all those overages for all those thousands of employees day after day after day I will just shut off my VPN connection so I'm not on the hook for it.